Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-21

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in the case of Lord Sandwich, persis.
tent gambler, who not being willing to
leave the dice table long enough for the
taking of food, invented preparation of
food that he could take without stoppiu O
the game; namely, slice OF beef between
| two slices of bread, which was named
after Lord Sandwich. Il is absurd for
those of US who have never felt
the fascination of the wager to speak
slightingly of the temptation. 1t has
slain q multitude of intellectual and
moral giants, men and women stronger
! than you or [. Down under its power
went glorious Oliver Goldsmith, Gibbon
the historian, and Charles Fox the states
man, and in olden times famous senators
OF the United States, who used to be as
regularly at the gambling house all night
as they were in the halls of legislation by
day. Oh, the tragedies Of the faro table
| know persons who began with Slight
stake in ladies' psrlor, and ended with
the suicides pistol at Monte Carlo. They
played with the square pieces of bone
with black marks on them, not knowing
that Satan was playing for their bones at
the same time, and was sure to sweep all
the stakes off on bis side of the table.
The last New York Legislature sanctioned
the mighty evil last spring by passing
a law for it's defence at the race tracks,
rand many young men in these cities lost
all their wages at Coney Island this sum-
mer, and this fall are borrowing from
THE MONEY TILLs
of their employers or arranging by means
of false entry to adjust their demoralized
| finances. Every man whe voted for the
Tryo Il Hi hao - in
head the blood of these souls.
But in this connection some young
converts say to me: els it right to play
cards? Is there any harm in game of
whist or euchre?" Well, know good
men who play whist and euchre and
other styles of game without any wagers.
had friend who played cards with his
wife and children, anu then at the close
said: "Come, now, let Us have prayers"
l will not Judge other mems consciences,
| but tell you that cards are in my mind
so associated with the temporal and
eternal damnation of splendid young men
that should no sooner say to my family:
"Come, let us have 8 game of cards."
than l would go into q mensgerie and
say: "COme, let US have game OF rattle
snakes" or into cemetery, and sitting
diggers: "CUme, let US have game of
skulls" Conscientious young lsdies are
silently saying to me while l speak: 500
you think card playing Will do US any
harm?" Perhaps not, but how will you
feel if in the great day Of eternity, when
we are asked to give an account of our
| influence, some man shall say to you: tI
was introduced to games of chance in the
in
l went on from that sport to something
more exciting, and went on down until
lost my business, and lost my morals, and
| lost my soul, and these chains that you
see On my wrists and feet are the chains
of gamester's doom, and [ am on my
way to gamblers hell" Honey at the
start, eternal catastrophe at the last.
| Stock gambling comes into the same
catalogue. II must be exbilerating to go
into Wall street, New York, or State
phla, and depositing small sum OF
money,
RUN THE RISK
of taking out fortune. Many men are
doing an honest and safe business in the
stock market, and you are an lgnoramus
if you do not know that it is just as
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cuffee, or sugar, or -four. But nearly all
! the outsiders who go there on little
financial excursion lose all. The OLD
spiders eat up the unsuspecting flies. l
! had friend who put mis- nand OF his hip
pocket, and said TO me in substance: "I
have there the value of 8 hundred and
day penniless. What was the matteIS
/ IN no MI NJ,
are victimized you hear not one word.
whole columns of newspapers dls-
cuss their fraud, or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
one such famous firm sinks, 500 unknown
goes down, and all the little boats are
swallowed in the same engulfmen t. Gam
bling is gem ding, whether in stocks or
| bread stuffs, or dice or race track betting.
Exnilarstion at the start, and a raving
| brain, and g shattered, nervous system,
and sacrificed property, and destroyed
soul al the last. Young man, buy no
lottery tickets, purchase no prize pack
ages, pct on no
BASE BALL GAMES
| or Yacht racing, have no faith in luck,
answer no mysterious circulars proposals g
great income for small investment, shoe
away the buzZards that hover around our
hotels trying to entTap strangers. Gu
out and make an honest living. Have
God on your side and be candidate fol-
heaven Remember all the paths of Gin
are banked with flowers at the start, and
there are plenty of helpful hands to fetch
the gay charger to your door and hold
the slirrup while you mount. But fur
Their on the horse plunges to the bit in q
slough inextricable. The best honey is
not like that which Jonathan took on the
end of the roG and brought to his lip, but
that which God puts on the banque ing
table of mercy, at which we are all in
vited to sit. I was reading Of a boy
among the mountains of Switzerland as
cending dangerous place with his father
and the guides. The boy stopped on tbs
edge of the cliff and said: "There is q
flower l mean to get" "Come away
from there" said the father, "you will
fall Off "No," said he, "I must get
that beautiful fiower," and the guides
rushed toward him to pull him back, when
they heard him say, 81 almost have
it," as he fell 1000 feet. Birds OF prey
were seen few days after clrcling
through the air and lowering gradually
10 the place where the corpse lay. Why
seek flowers off the edge Of q precipice
when you may walk knee deep amid the
full blooms OF the very paradise of God ?
When man may Sit at kings banquef,